Rock on Dr.C

HT: Merrill

A good basic test

This was much fun and must admit i was more than a little apprehensive about taking this one.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/04/19/education/edlife/20090419EdlifeQuiz.html?scp=1&sq=economics%202009%20ap&st=cse

Thanfully, didn't do too badly.

War Games!

So West Point graduates are going to have to train on PlayStations now.

This is scary.

A desired future

Some people should be scared, very scared.

Ouch!

Even once is too often for an act like this.

Good ideas

This talk needed to be a lot longer.

No one wants to hear the truth, ever!

All hail Scott Adams, now!

Britain's got talent

Way to go, Susan Boyle!

Listen to her sing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

the future of the phone

Its a long video, but it actually gets more interesting as it goes on and even ends really well. If you have the patience to get there, it'll be worth your while. Cheers!

http://www.youtube.com/user/tedtalksdirector?blend=1&ob=4

indian ocean

many a drunk evening in college was spent singing along to this

Roti with Chicken Curry

1/2 kg chicken breast (marinated in curd and spices for 3 hours)

1 onion

3 cloves garlic

3 cardamom pods

spices (season to taste)

1 can tomato paste

1 tsp sugar

1/2 glass milk

3 rotis

Cobra would have been perfect, but the case of Heineken's still there.

Shepherd's Pie

1/2 kg beef mince

4 potatoes (mashed)

3 carrots

1 onion

250g peas

250g corn

2 tbsp worcestorshire sauce

1/2 cup broth

salt, pepper and butter

the only bit missing was some Guinness, so Heineken would have to do.

Curry and Rice

Dinner!

I totally want one of these

I'd be comfortable, warm and look like Obi-wan too. Could there be a better way to lounge?

Give the dog a bone

or the hope of some. I wonder why all and sundry seem so interested in Pak's latest dismissal of some 'dossier' put together by a few Indian mandarins. Its basically a question of realigning their goals.

We recognise that country's broke or is getting there soon enough. Why not offer them a performance linked bonus? The top income tax bracket in India is 33%; I suggest we offer them the top 3%, provided there are no terrorist attacks by their co-religious fundamentalists on Indian soil during the financial year.

Personally, i don't see how bad it could be. Currently I pay taxes and receive crappy government service and worse roads. Giving Zardari and gang a few financial incentives in addition to the largesse from the Pentagon may or may not change the situation; can't be much worse than it is now. For the Pakis, it'll be like getting paid twice from two masters for doing essentially the same job.

Eye off the ball

The wife was in town all of last month, hence the quiet on the blog and the absence of spread analysis. But the break seems to have done some good, took a 100 punt on the angels of anfield at 2.5 to beat the residents of stamford bridge. The pay-off cancelled out all previous losses for the season. God bless the Spaniard.

The weekend could have been better with the correct call of the Super Bowl winners but laziness to workout the right spreads was a refresher course in opportunity cost.

Am betting against the grain for tomorrow and have 10 down on the Lankans beating Dhoni's men at 2.2.

Cheers!

The next chief minister of J&K? Inshallah!

This speech could have been from a movie, its goosebumpy. He could lead armies on to the field with oration like this, lets be glad he's chosen to be a politician.

Another economist who looked for a calling

“Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.” - Irving Fisher circa 1929.

He would go on to achieve much, including the Nobel Prize in Economics. After the above statement he could only do better. Thankfully for those of us who came later, the statement also probably put paid to any notions he may have had of a career as an analyst.

Tourists in Dubai

I've done a fair bit of travelling and have had the opportunity to see quite a bit of odd tourist behaviour but the ones visiting Dubai are a special kind. I've never known a tourist to take snaps of cars, till i got here that is. And thats what they do when they are here. 

A few instances could be written off as car entusiasts freaking out but when it happens often enough you know its statistically significant. OK, some of these cars are pretty rare (expensive) but still, would you travel half way around the world to click a few snaps of a lamborghini in a mall parking lot?

Be a gooner, be a giver